Born on this day – Sylvia Miles:

Sylvia Miles

Actress

September 9, 1924 – June 12, 2019

Born on this day – Jane Greer:

Jane Greer

Actress

September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001

Born on this day – Leonard Rosenman:

Leonard Rosenman

Composer

Musician

September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008

Born on this day – Joan Aiken:

Joan Aiken

Writer

September 4, 1924 – January 4, 2004

Credits:

Books:

65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Book of Contemporary Nightmares (1977); A Bundle of Nerves (1976); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Century of Children's Ghost Stories (1996); A Children's Literary Treasury (2022); A Cluster of Separate Sparks / aka The Butterfly Picnic (1972); A Creepy Company (1993); A Fit of Shivers (1990); A Foot in the Grave (1989); A Ghostly Gallery (2023); A Goose on Your Grave (1987); A Handful of Gold (1995); A Harp of Fishbones (1972); A Necklace of Raindrops (1968); A Small Pinch of Weather (1969); A Touch of Chill (1979); A Whisper in the Night (1981); All and More / aka All You've Ever Wanted (1953); All But a Few (1974); Arabel and Mortimer Stories (2019); Arabel's Raven (1972); Armitage, Armitage Fly Away Home (1968); Bestiary! (1985); Black Hearts in Battersea (1964); Blackground (1989); Bone and Dream (2002); Bridle the Wind (1983); Castle Barebane (1976); Chilling Christmas Tales (1992); Christmas Forever (1993); Cold Shoulder Road (1995); Come Flee with Me (1978); Conrad Aiken, Our Father (1989); Dancing with the Dark (1997); Dangerous Games (1999); Dark Interval / aka Hate Begins at Home (1967); Dead Man's Lane (1996); Deception / aka If I Were You (1987); Dido and Pa (1986); Died on a Rainy Sunday (1972); Drabble II - Double Century (1990); Eliza's Daughter (1994); Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes (1984); Emma Watson (1996); Escaped Black Mamba (1973); Fantastic Fables (2023); Fantasy Stories (1994); Fantasy Stories (1996); Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice (1984); Foul Matter (1983); Ghostly Beasts (2002); Ghostly Haunts (1994); Ghosts That Haunt You (1980); Girl's Choice (1969); Give Yourself a Fright (1989); Go Saddle the Sea (1977); Gothic (2004); Haunting Christmas Tales (1991); Helena and the Wild Man (2000); Horror Stories (1988); In Thunder's Pocket (2001); Is / aka Is Underground (1992); ise Girl (2000); Jane Fairfax (1990); Lady Catherine's Necklace (2000); Last Movement (1977); Mansfield Revisited (1984); Mice and Mendelson (1978); Midnight Is a Place (1974); Midwinter Nightingale (2003); Moon Cake (1998); More Arabel and Mortimer (2019); More Than You Bargained for (1955); Morningquest (1992); Mortimer and Arabel (1992); Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur (1979); Mortimer Says Nothing (1985); Mortimer's Bread Bin / aka The Bread Bin (1974); Mortimer's Cross (1983); Mortimer's Mine (1995); Mortimer's Pocket (1994); Mortimer's Portrait on Glass (1982); Mortimer's Tie (1976); Mystery Stories (1996); Mystifying (2008); New Terrors 1 (1980); New Terrors Omnibus (1985); Night Fall (1969); Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966); Nightshade (2000); Not What You Expected (1974); Over the Rainbow (1983); Past Eight O'Clock (1986); Psychos (2012); Return to Harken House / aka Voices (1988); Scaremongers (1998); Scary! (1998); Secret City (1997); Serve Me Stefan (2000); Shadows and Moonshine (1990); Shivers for Christmas (1995); Silent Night (2002); Silver Jackanory (1991); Simply the Best (1996); Siren Stories (2023); Skin of the Soul (1990); Smoke from Cromwell's Time (1970); Snow Horse (2004); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2002); Song of Mat and Ben (2000); Spellbound (2007); Strangeness (1977); Street (1978); Tale of a One-Way Street (1978); The 10th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1969); The 1st Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959); The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967); The Angel Inn (1976); The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3 (2009); The Cockatrice Boys (1996); The Crystal Crow (1967); The Cuckoo Tree (1971); The Dark Side (2007); The Embroidered Sunset (1970); The Erl King's Daughter (1988); The Faithless Lollybird (1977); The Far Forests (1977); The Fifth Armada Ghost Book (1973); The Fifth Ghost Book (1969); The Five-Minute Marriage (1977); The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966); The Fortune Hunters (1965); The Ghost's Companion (1975); The Gift Giving (2016); The Girl From Paris / aka The Young Lady from Paris (1982); The Green Flash (1971); The Haunting of Lamb House (1987); The Jewel Seed (1997); The Kingdom and the Cave (1960); The Kingdom Under the Sea (1971); The Kingfisher Treasury of Five-Minute Stories (2004); The Kitchen Warriors (1983); The Last Slice of the Rainbow (1985); The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 23 (2012); The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997); The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000); The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995); The Midnight Moropus (1993); The Monkey's Wedding (2011); The Mooncusser's Daughter (1974); The Moon's Revenge (1987); The Mystery of Mr Jones's Disappearing Taxi (1982); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1975); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995); The People in the Castle (2016); The Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-year-olds (1996); The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1997); The Random House Book of Ghost Stories (1991); The Scream (2002); The Serial Garden (2008); The Shadow Guests (1980); The Shoemaker's Boy (1991); The Silence of Herondale (1964); The Sixth Ghost Book: Book 2 (1970); The Skin Spinners (poems) (1976); The Smile of the Stranger (1977); The Spiral Stair (1979); The Stolen Lake (1981); The Teeth of the Gale / aka In the Teeth of the Gale (1988); The Tenth Ghost Book (1974); The Tinker's Curse (1978); The Way to Write for Children (1981); The Weeping Ash / aka The Lightning Tree (1980); The Whispering Mountain (1968); The Windscreen Weepers (1969); The Winter Sleepwalker (1991); The Witch of Clatteringshaws (2005); The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962); The Wooden Dragon (2004); The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature (2002); The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2012 (2012); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990); The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989); The Youngest Miss Ward (1998); Triangles (1973); Trouble with Product X / aka Beware of the Bouquet (1966); Up the Chimney Down (1984); Voices in an Empty House (1975); Weather Witches and Wise Women (2023); Winterthing (1972).

Movies and television:

Black Hearts in Battersea (1995–1996); Jackanory (1968–1992); Jackanory Playhouse (1977–1979); Joan Aiken (1969); L'ultima fetta di arcobaleno (2023); Midnight Is a Place (1977–1978); Mort un dimanche de pluie (1986); Mortimer & Arabel (1993–1994); Night Gallery / Segment: Marmalade Wine (1971); Rainy Story (1988); Read All About It (1974); Shadows (1976–1978); Television Theater (1998); The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989).

Born on this day – Peggy Ryan:

Peggy Ryan

Dancer

Actress

August 28, 1924 – October 30, 2004

Credits:

A Night at the Troc (1939); All Ashore (1953); All Star Revue (1951–1952); Babes on Swing Street (1944); Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938); Bowery to Broadway (1944); Chip Off the Old Block (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); Fun on the Run (1949); Get Hep to Love (1942); Girls' Town (1942); Give Out, Sisters (1942); Hawaii Five-O (1968–1976); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); Here's Hollywood (1961); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1985); Just Off Broadway (1955); Men in Her Diary (1945); Miss Annie Rooney (1942); Mister Big (1943); On Stage Everybody (1945); Oysters and Muscles (1948); Patrick the Great (1944); Pleasure Palace (1980); Private Buckaroo (1942); Sailor's Lady (1940); Shamrock Hill (1949); She Married a Cop (1939); ShirleyMania (2002); Simon & Simon (1983); Songs for Sale (1952); Stage Show (1954); Star of the Family (1951); That's the Spirit (1945); The Betty White Show (1954); The Eyes Have It (1952); The Flying Irishman (1939); The George Jessel Show (1954); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); The Ken Murray Show (1950); The Merry Monahans (1944); The Mickey Mouse Club (1956); The Milton Berle Show (1949–1952); The Saturday Night Revue (1954); The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1950); The Spike Jones Show (1954); The Tonight Show (1955–1956); The Wedding of Jack and Jill (1930); The Women Men Marry (1937); There's a Girl in My Heart (1949); This Is Show Business (1956); This Is the Life (1944); Top Man (1943); Top of the Town (1937); Universal Musical Short 3655: Singin' and Swingin' (1950); Val Parnell's Startime (1956); Varsity Vanities (1940); What's Cookin' (1942); When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942).

Born on this day – William Marshall:

William Marshall

Actor

Director

Opera singer

August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003

Born on this day – Evan S. Connell:

Evan S. Connell

Writer

August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013

Credits:

Books:

A Long Desire (1979); American Short Story Masterpieces (1987); At the Crossroads (1965); Deus Lo Volt! (2000); Double Honeymoon (1976); El Dorado and Other Pursuits (2002); Francisco Goya: A Life (2003); Lost in Uttar Pradesh (2008); Mr. Bridge (1969); Mrs. Bridge (1959); Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (1962); Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012); Points for a Compass Rose (1973); Son of the Morning Star (1984); St. Augustine's Pigeon (1980); The Alchymist's Journal (1991); The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories (1957); The Aztec Treasure House (2001); The Best American Short Stories 1957 (1957); The Collected Stories (1995); The Connoisseur (1974); The Diary of a Rapist (1966); The Patriot (1958); The White Lantern (1980).

Movies and television:

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990); Son of the Morning Star (1991).

Born on this day – Joseph Cates:

Joseph Cates

Director

Producer

Writer

August 10, 1924 – October 10, 1998

Born on this day – Martha Hyer:

Martha Hyer

Actress

August 10, 1924 – May 31, 2014

Credits:

A Girl Named Tamiko (1962); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1952); AFI Life Achievement Award (1974–1977); Battle Hymn (1957); Battle of Rogue River (1954); Bewitched (1965); Bikini Beach (1964); Blood on the Arrow (1964); Bob Hope's Road to Hollywood (1983); Born to Kill (1947); Branded (1965); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Catch As Catch Can (1967); Climax! (1958); Crossplot (1969); Cry Vengeance (1954); Cuernavaca en primavera / Segment: El nido de amor (1966); Desire in the Dust (1960); Down Three Dark Streets (1954); Family Affair (1967); Fireside Theatre (1953); First Men in the Moon (1964); Four Star Playhouse (1953–1954); Francis in the Navy (1955); Frisco Tornado (1950); Geisha Girl (1952); Gun Smugglers (1948); Here's Hollywood (1960); House of 1,000 Dolls (1967); Houseboat (1958); Ice Palace (1960); It Takes a Thief (1969); Judd for the Defense (1967); Kelly and Me (1956); Kiss of Fire (1955); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964–1965); La mujer de otro (1967); Lucky Me (1954); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); McCloud (1974); Mister Cory (1957); Mistress of the World (1960); My Man Godfrey (1957); O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (1972); Once Upon a Horse... (1958); Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969); Oriental Evil (1951); Outcast of Black Mesa (1950); Paris Follies of 1956 (1955); Paris Holiday (1958); Picture Mommy Dead (1966); Playhouse 90 (1958); Private Secretary (1953); Public Defender (1954); Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (1964); Racket Squad (1952); Rawhide (1959); Red Sundown (1956); Riders to the Stars (1954); Rooster Cogburn (1975); Roughshod (1949); Route 66 (1961); Rustlers (1949); Sabrina (1954); Salt Lake Raiders (1950); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Showdown at Abilene (1956); So Big (1953); Some Came Running (1958); Some May Live (1967); The 31st Annual Academy Awards (1959); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965); The Best of Broadway (1955); The Best of Everything (1959); The Beverly Hillbillies (1966); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Carpetbaggers (1964); The Chase (1966); The Clay Pigeon (1949); The Day of the Wolves (1971); The Delicate Delinquent (1957); The Deputy (1960); The Deputy (1960); The Farmer's Daughter (1964); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Happening (1967); The Judge Steps Out (1948); The Kangaroo Kid (1950); The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961); The Lawless (1950); The Locket (1946); The Lone Ranger (1950); The Man from the Diners' Club (1963); The Name of the Game (1968); The Night of the Grizzly (1966); The Oscars (2015); The Right Approach (1961); The Scarlet Spear (1954); The Sons of Katie Elder (1965); The Unexpected (1952); The Velvet Touch (1948); The Virginian (1970); The Woman on the Beach (1947); The Young Lawyers (1971); Thunder Mountain (1947); Trouble on the Trail (1954); War Italian Style (1965); Wild Stallion (1952); Wives and Lovers (1963); Wyoming Renegades (1955); Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952); Yukon Gold (1952); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Ella Jenkins:

Ella Jenkins

Singer

Writer

Composer

August 6, 1924 – November 9, 2024

Credits:

Albums:

A Life of Song (2011); A Long Time (1970 / 1992 / 2024); Adventures in Rhythm (1959 / 1989 / 1992); African-American Folk Rhythms (1960 / 1998); And One And Two & Other Songs for Pre-School and Primary Children (1971 / 1990); Call-and-Response Rhythmic Group Singing (1957 / 1990); Camp Songs with Ella Jenkins and Friends (2017); cELLAbration: A Tribute to Ella Jenkins (2004); Come Dance by the Ocean (1991); Counting Games & Rhythms for the Little Ones (1969 / 1990); Early Early Childhood Songs (1982 / 1996); Ella Jenkins and A Union of Friends Pulling Together (1999); For the Family (1991); Get Moving with Ella Jenkins (2012); Growing Up With Ella Jenkins (1976 / 1990); Holiday Times (1996); Hopping Around from Place to Place Vol. 1 (1983 / 1999 / 2015); Hopping Around from Place to Place Vol. 2 (1983 / 2000 / 2015); I Know the Colors of the Rainbow (1981); Jambo and Other Call and Response Songs and Chants (1974 / 1996); Little Johnny Brown with Ella Jenkins and Girls and Boys from "Uptown" (Chicago) (1972 / 1990); Live at the Smithsonian (1991); Looking Back and Looking Forward (1981); More Multicultural Children's Songs (2014); Multicultural Children's Songs (1995); My Street Begins at My House (1971 / 1989); Nursery Rhymes: Rhyming & Remembering for Young Children & for Older Girls & Boys with Special Language Needs (1974 / 1990); 123s and ABCs (2014); Play Your Instruments & Make a Pretty Sound (1968 / 1994); Rhythm & Game Songs for Little Ones (1964 / 1991); Rhythms of Childhood (1970 / 1989); Seasons for Singing (1970 / 1990); Sharing Cultures With Ella Jenkins (2003); Songs and Rhythms From Near and Far (1964 / 1997); Songs Children Love To Sing (1996); Songs, Rhythms And Chants for the Dance (1977 / 1982 / 2000); This is Rhythm (1961 / 1994); This-A-Way That-A-Way (1973 / 1989 / 1992); This-a-Way-That-a-Way (1961 / 1989); Travellin' with Ella Jenkins: – A Bilingual Journey (1979 / 1989); We Are America's Children (1976); You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song (1966 / 1989).

Movies and television:

Barney & Friends (1993); Cellabration Live! a Tribute to Ella Jenkins (2007); Fargo (2020); Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom (2022); Kidding (2018); Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1974–1992); Roadtrip Nation (2012); Sunday Today with Willie Geist (2024).

Born on this day – Carroll O'Connor:

Carroll O'Connor

Actor

Producer

Director

August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001

Born on this day – Lola Albright:

Lola Albright

Actress

Singer

July 20, 1924 – March 23, 2017

Credits:

A Cold Wind in August (1961); ABC's Nightlife (1965); Adventures in Paradise (1961); Adventures of the Falcon (1954); Airwolf (1984); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1962); All Star Revue (1951–1952); Arctic Flight (1952); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1951); Beauty on Parade (1950); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1966–1967); Bodyhold (1949); Bonanza (1965–1967); Branded (1965–1966); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Champion (1949); Cimarron Strip (1967); Code 3 (1957); Columbo (1976); Delta County, U.S.A. (1977); Dr. Kildare (1964); Duffy's Tavern (1954); Easter Parade (1948); Filmmaking on the Riviera (1964); Fireside Theatre (1954); Four Star Playhouse (1956); General Electric Theater (1961); Gunsmoke (1955); Here's Hollywood (1961); He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950); How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967); I'll Bet (1965); Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American (2003); It's a Great Life (1955); Joy House (1964); Julia Misbehaves (1948); Kid Galahad (1962); King of Diamonds (1961); Kojak (1973); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1961); Laredo (1966); Lord Love a Duck (1966); Lux Video Theatre (1951); McMillan & Wife (1976); Medical Center (1972–1974); Michael Shayne (1960); Mr. Broadway (1964); My Three Sons (1962); Off to See the Wizard (1968); Oregon Passage (1957); Panic! (1958); Pawnee (1957); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1962); Peter Gunn (1958–1961); Peyton Place (1965–1966); Police Story (1975); Pour le plaisir (1965); Quincy, M.E. (1983); Racket Squad (1953); Rawhide (1964–1965); Ready and Willing (1967); René Clément, témoin et poète (2013); Saints and Sinners (1962); Screen Directors Playhouse (1955); Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Cowboy Stars (1955); Seven Guns to Mesa (1958); Sierra Passage (1950); Starsky and Hutch (1976); Stump the Stars (1950); Svengoolie (2014); Switch (1978); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Target (1958); TCM Remembers 2017 (2017); Terraces (1977); The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1973); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1964); The Beverly Hillbillies (1963); The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1957); The Celebrity Game (1965); The Detectives (1961); The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964); The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978); The Eleventh Hour (1963); The George Gobel Show (1960); The Girl from Jones Beach (1949); The Good Humor Man (1950); The Helicopter Spies (1968); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime);  (1967); The Impossible Years (1968); The Incredible Hulk (1981); The Ken Murray Show (1951–1952); The Killer That Stalked New York (1950); The Linkletter Show (1958); The Magnificent Matador (1955); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Mighty O (1962); The Mike Douglas Show (1965–1978); The Money Jungle (1967); The Monolith Monsters (1957); The Nurse Killer (1975); The People's Choice (1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Pirate (1948); The Red Skelton Hour (1956–1957); The Silver Whip (1953); The Soundman (1950); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1959); The Tender Trap (1955); The Thin Man (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1965); The U.S. Royal Showcase (1952); The Unfinished Dance (1947); The Way West (1967); This Is Your Life (1971); Treasure of Ruby Hills (1955); Tulsa (1949); Valentine's Day (1965); Wagon Train (1964); What's This Song? (1965); When You're Smiling (1950); Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968); Whirlybirds (1957); Will Banner (1965); You Don't Say (1965–1967).

Born on this day – Thomas Berger:

Thomas Berger

Writer

July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014

Credits:

Books:

Adventures of the Artificial Woman (2004); Arthur Rex (1978); Being Invisible (1987); Best Friends (2003); Changing the Past (1989); Crazy in Berlin (1958); Granted Wishes (1984); Killing Time (1967); Little Big Man (1964); Meeting Evil (1992); Neighbors (1980); Nowhere (1985); Orrie's Story (1990); Regiment of Women (1973); Reinhart in Love (1962); Reinhart's Women (1981); Robert Crews (1994); Sneaky People (1975); Suspects (1996); The Feud (1983); The Houseguest (1988); The Return of Little Big Man (1999); Vital Parts (1970); Who Is Teddy Villanova? (1977).

Movies and television:

Little Big Man (1970); Meeting Evil (2012); Neighbors (1981); The Feud (1989).

Born on this day – Florence Stanley:

Florence Stanley

Actress

July 1, 1924 – October 3, 2003

Born on this day – Sidney Lumet:

Sidney Lumet

Director

Producer

Writer

June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011

Credits:

12 Angry Men (1957); 50 Years of Action! (1986); 100 Centre Street (2001–2002); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); A Stranger Among Us (1992); A View from the Bridge (1962); AFI Life Achievement Award (2007); AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres (2008); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies (2006); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies (1998); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001); All the King's Men (1958); American Experience (2006); American Masters (2003–2017); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Arena (1977); Based on a True Story (2004); Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007); Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men' (2008); Beyond the Time Barrier (1960); Biography (1999–2003); Blue Code of Silence (2020); By Sidney Lumet (2015); Bye Bye Braverman (1968); Camera Three (1962); CBS Television Workshop (1952); Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (2004); Charlie Rose (1995–2007); Child's Play (1972); Cinema (1967); Cinema 3 (2011); Cinema mil (2005); Crime Photographer (1951–1952); Critical Care (1997); Cronkite Remembers (1997); Danger (1951–1953); Daniel (1983); De película (1987); Deathtrap (1982); Días de cine (2011); Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made (2008); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); 'Dog Day Afternoon': After the Filming (2006); 'Dog Day Afternoon': Casting the Controversy (2006); 'Dog Day Afternoon': Recreating the Facts (2006); Equus (1977); Fail Safe (1964); Family Business (1989); Film '72 (1973–1987); Find Me Guilty (2006); Finding Eleazar (2004); FOLCS Conversations (2006); Fonda on Fonda (1992); Frontier (1955); Funny (1988); Garbo Talks (1984); Gloria (1999); Goodyear Playhouse (1955–1956); Guilty as Sin (1993); Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958); Hollywood Greats (1984); Hollywood Insider (2021–2022); I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009); Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004); In Her Skin (2009); Inside 'Serpico' (2002); Inside the Actors Studio (1994); Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (2000); John Brown's Raid (1960); John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs (2017); Journey to Jerusalem (1941); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1969); Kraft Theatre (1958); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1959); Le 100 Centre Street De Sidney Lumet (2002); L'énigme Charlotte Rampling (2023); Les échos du cinéma (1962); Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990); Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962); Lovin' Molly (1974); Lumet on Lumet (2011); Lumet: Film Maker (1975); Making 'Murder on the Orient Express' (2004); Mama (1954); Messengers (2004); Milestones in Cinema History: The Verdict (2007); Minty Comedic Arts (2021); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Moving Image Salutes James Stewart (1988); Moving Image Salutes Sidney Lumet (1985); Mr. Broadway (1957); Mr. Broadway (1957); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); Network (1976); 'Network': Mad as Hell - The Creation of a Movie Moment (2006); 'Network': The Cast, the Characters (2006); 'Network': The Experience (2006); 'Network': The Style (2006); 'Network': The World and Words of Paddy Chayefsky (2006); New York at the Movies (2002); Night Falls on Manhattan (1996); Night of 100 Stars III (1990); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II (1998); Omnibus (1954–1957); ...One Third of a Nation... (1939); Papirossen (1936); Party Girl (1995); Paul Newman, l'intranquille (2023); Play of the Week (1960); Playhouse 90 (1960); Power (1986); Prince of the City (1981); Prince of the City: The Real Story (2007); Private Screenings (2005); Private Screenings (2014); Producers' Showcase (1957); Q&A (1990); Rachel Getting Married (2008); Rachel, quand du seigneur (2004); Release (1968); Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000); Running on Empty (1988); Sean Connery Close Up (1997); Sean Connery: A BAFTA Tribute (1990); Sean Connery: An Intimate Portrait (1997); Serpico (1973); 'Serpico': Favorite Moments (2002); 'Serpico': From Real to Reel (2002); Sidney Lumet: I Love New York (1987); Spécial cinéma (1983); Special Collector's Edition (2013); Spike Lee's '25th Hour': The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (2003); Stage Struck (1958); Star Stage (1955); Strip Search (2004); Studio One (1957); Sunday Showcase (1960); TCM Remembers (2011); That Kind of Woman (1959); The 17th Annual Gotham Awards (2007); The 400 Million (1939); The 45th Annual Directors Guild Awards (1993); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 49th Annual Academy Awards (1977); The 55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005); The 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Anderson Tapes (1971); The Annual ACLU Tribute: A Salute to Sidney Lumet (1985); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The Appointment (1969); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The British Greats (1980); The Challenge (1955); The Deadly Affair (1967); The Dick Cavett Show (1968–1995); The Directors (1999); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1958); The Elgin Hour (1955); The Fugitive Kind (1960); The Group (1966); The Hill (1965); The Iceman Cometh (1960); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (1997); The Last Movie Stars (2022); The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970); The Making of 'the Verdict' (1982); The Manchurian Candidate (2004); The Manchurian Candidate: Political Pundits (2004); The Merv Griffin Show (1969); The Morning After (1986); The Offence (1973); The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2012); The Pawnbroker (1964); The Sea Gull (1968); The Seven Lively Arts (1957); The Station Agent (2003); The Sun... the Sand... the Hill (1965); The Tramp and the Dictator (2002); The Verdict (1982); The Verdict: Paul Newman - The Craft of Acting (2007); The Verdict: Sidney Lumet - The Craft of Directing (2007); The Wiz (1978); This Is Your Life (1990); Unauthorized Biography: Jane Fonda (1988); What Is Cinema? (2013); William Holden: The Golden Boy (1989); Wiz on Down the Road (1978); You Are There (1953–1955).

Born on this day – William Humphrey:

William Humphrey

Writer

June 18, 1924 – August 20, 1997

Credits:

Books:

A Time and a Place (1968); Ah, Wilderness! The Frontier in American Literature (1977); Farther Off from Heaven (1977); Home from the Hill (1958); Hostages to Fortune (1984); My Moby Dick (1978); No Resting Place (1989); Open Season: Sporting Adventures (1986); Proud Flesh (1973); September Song (1992); The Last Husband and Other Stories (1953); The Ordways (1965); The Spawning Run (1970); William Humphrey (1992); William Humphrey: Destroyer of Myths (1998).

Movie:

Home from the Hill (1960).

Born on this day – Keith Larsen:

Keith Larsen

Actor

Writer

Director

Producer

June 17, 1924 – December 13, 2006

Credits:

Apache Warrior (1957); Arrow in the Dust (1954); Aru heishi no kake (1970); Badlands of Montana (1957); Brave Eagle (1955–1956); Caxambu! (1971); Chief Crazy Horse (1955); Desert Sands (1955); Dial Red O (1955); Flat Top (1952); Flying Leathernecks (1951); Fort Vengeance (1953); Frontier Rangers (1959); Fury River (1961); General Electric Theater (1957); Hiawatha (1952); I'll Bet (1965); Last of the Badmen (1957); Lux Video Theatre (1956–1957); Men Into Space (1959); Mission Batangas (1968); Mission of Danger (1960); Night Freight (1955); Night of the Witches (1970); Northwest Passage (1958–1959); Operation Pacific (1951); Paula (1952); Playhouse 90 (1957); Portrait by Whistler (1954); Security Risk (1954); Son of Belle Starr (1953); Space Patrol (1952); The Aquanauts (1960–1961); The Hunter (1952–1955); The Linkletter Show (1960); The Man and the Challenge (1960); The Millionaire (1957); The Omegans (1968); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Roaring 20's (1961); The Rose Bowl Story (1952); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1958); The Web (1957); Tombstone Territory (1960); Torpedo Alley (1952); Trap on Cougar Mountain (1972); War Paint (1953); Whitewater Sam (1982); Wichita (1955); Wichita Town (1960); Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966); Young and Free (1979); Your Play Time (1954).

Born on this day – Faith Domergue:

Faith Domergue

Actress

June 16, 1924 – April 4, 1999

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1961); Amore grande, amore libero (1976); Blues in the Night (1941); Bonanza (1961–1964); Bourbon Street Beat (1959); Bronco (1960); California (1963); Celebrity Playhouse (1955); Cheyenne (1959); Colt .45 (1960); Combat! (1966); Cult of the Cobra (1955); Dancing in a Harem (1941); Elvira's Movie Macabre (1982); Escort West (1959); Fireside Theatre (1954); Garrison's Gorillas (1968); General Electric Theater (1954); Hardly a Criminal (1949); Have Gun - Will Travel (1962–1963); Hawaiian Eye (1959–1961); Here's Hollywood (1961); Il cielo brucia (1958); It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955); Lo stato d'assedio (1969); Lock Up (1961); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1954); Michael Shayne (1960); Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996); One on Top of the Other (1969); Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (1957); Perry Mason (1961–1963); Rogue for Hire (1960); Santa Fe Passage (1955); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1958); So Evil, My Sister (1974); Spin a Dark Web (1956); State Trooper (1959); Sugarfoot (1959); Svengoolie (1997); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); The Atomic Man (1955); The Count of Monte Cristo (1956); The Duel at Silver Creek (1952); The Ford Television Theatre (1954); The Gamblers (1970); The Great Sioux Uprising (1953); The Horror Show (1979); The House of Seven Corpses (1974); The Man with Icy Eyes (1971); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Tall Man (1961); This Is My Love (1954); This Island Earth (1955); Track of Thunder (1967); Vendetta (1950); Violent Stranger (1957); Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965); War of the Planets (1958); Where Danger Lives (1950); Will to Die (1971); Young Widow (1946).

Born on this day – Gloria Stroock:

Gloria Stroock

Actress

June 15, 1924 – May 5, 2024

Credits:

ABC Afterschool Specials (1977); Archie Bunker's Place (1982); Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950); Baretta (1978); Bill Slater Show (1950); Brando (2007); Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1952); City in Fear (1980); Death Car on the Freeway (1979); Fun with Dick and Jane (1977); Holmes and Yoyo (1976); Kraft Theatre (1948); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1950); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955); Mama (1955); Martin Kane (1951); McMillan & Wife (1974–1977); Missing Pieces (1991); Modern Romances (1955); NBC Presents (1949); Newsstand Theatre (1952); No Easy Way (1996); Operation Petticoat (1977–1978); Passions (1984); Robert Montgomery Presents (1955); Rosetti and Ryan (1977); Seed of Innocence (1980); Spotlight (1954); Starlight Theatre (1950); Studio One (1950–1955); The Competition (1980); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Girls (1950); The Patricia Neal Story (1981); The Snoop Sisters (1972); Uncommon Valor (1983); Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977).

Born on this day – Dennis Weaver:

Dennis Weaver

Actor

June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006

Credits:

10th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (1974); 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007); 1993 Environmental Media Awards (1993); 50 Years of Television: A Celebration of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Golden Anniversary (1997); 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2001); 95th Tournament of Roses Parade (1984); A Man Called Sledge (1970); A Winner Never Quits (1986); AFI Life Achievement Award (1975–1995); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960); All Star Blitz (1985); All-Star Party for Lucille Ball (1984); Amber Waves (1980); Ancient Secrets of the Bible, Part II (1993); Angel (1999); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Big Town (1956); Biography (1998); Bloopermania (1987); Bluffing It (1987); Buck James (1987–1988); Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1991–1994); Cavalcade of America (1954); CBS at 75 (2003); CBS: The First 50 Years (1998); Centennial (1978–1979); Cher (1975); Chief Crazy Horse (1955); Citizen Steve (1987); Climax! (1958); Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983); Column South (1953); Combat! (1965); Common Ground: Farming and Wildlife (1987); Compression (2024); Dangerous Mission (1954); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Dennis Weaver (1976); Dennis Weaver's Earthship: Documentary (1990); Dinah! (1975–1979); Disaster at Silo 7 (1988); Don't Go to Sleep (1982); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dragnet (1952–1955); Duel (1971); Duel at Diablo (1966); Duel: A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg (2004); Earth and the American Dream (1992); Emerald Point N.A.S. (1983–1984); Entertainment Tonight (2000); Escape from Wildcat Canyon (1998); Family Feud (1984); Family Law (2001); Female Artillery (1973); Flip (1974); Gentle Ben (1967–1969); Gentle Giant (1967); Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story (1985); Greyhounds (1994); Gunsmoke (1956–1964); Headin' Home for the Holidays (1986); Hee Haw (1977–1981); Henry (2005); High Noon (2000); Hollywood Squares (2004); Home on the Range (2004); Hopalong Cassidy: Public Hero #1 (2001); Horizons West (1952); Intimate Portrait (2000–2002); Intimate Strangers (1977); Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978); It Happens Every Thursday (1953); Jerry Visits (1971); Judd for the Defense (1969); Kentucky Jones (1964–1965); Larry Grayson (1977); Law and Order (1953); Lights, Camera, Monty! (1975); Lola! (1976); Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994–1995); Magnum, P.I. (1985); Mama Mae: The Life and Music of Mae Boren Axton (2015); Mastergate (1992); McCloud (1970–1977); Memories Then and Now (1988); Mission Batangas (1968); Moving Image Salutes Steven Spielberg (1994); Music of the West: A Tribute to America's Singing Cowboys (1993); Navy Wife (1956); On the Go (1960); One on One with John Tesh (1991); Password (1962); Peace Pilgrim in Peace Pilgrim: An American Sage Who Walked Her Talk (2002); Pearl (1978); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1962); Philbin's People (1969); Pioneers of Television (2011); Playhouse 90 (1958); Police Story (1979); Politically Incorrect (2001); Rolling Man (1972); Schlitz Playhouse (1955); Seduction in a Small Town (1997); Seven Angry Men (1955); Sex Symbols: Past, Present and Future (1986); Special Collector's Edition (2011); Spielberg (2017); Star's Table (1986); Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997); Stone (1979–1980); Storm Fear (1955); Stump the Stars (1963); Subdivide and Conquer: A Modern Western (1999); Submerged (2000); Super Bloopers and Practical Jokes (1992); Super Password (1986); Swing Out, Sweet Land (1970); Television: The First Fifty Years (1999); Telluride: Time Crosses Over (1997); Ten Wanted Men (1955); Terror on the Beach (1973); That Girl (1970); The 11th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1959); The 14th Annual Genesis Awards (2000); The 15th Annual Genesis Awards (2001); The 19th Academy of Country Music Awards (1984); The 23rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1971); The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1986); The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2006); The Beast (2001); The Best of Hollywood (1998 / 2017); The Big Show (1980); The Bob Braun Show (1984); The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954); The Cowboy (2016); The Day the Loving Stopped (1981); The Dean Martin Show (1968–1971); The Don Knotts Show (1970); The Ed Nelson Show (1969); The Ed Sullivan Show (1959); The Everly Brothers Show (1970); The Forgotten Man (1971); The Gallant Hours (1960); he Garry Moore Show (1962); The Global Forum (1990); The Golden Blade (1953); The Great Battles of the Civil War (1994); The Great Man's Whiskers (1972); The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1969–1977); The Hollywood Squares (Syndication) (1973–1974); The Incredible Hulk (1978); The Islander (1978); The Joey Bishop Show (1968); The John Denver Special (1976); The Juke Box Jury (1959); The Lawless Breed (1952); The Linkletter Show (1970); The Lone Ranger (1955); The Magical World of Disney (1966); The Man from the Alamo (1953); The Match Game (1963); The Merv Griffin Show (1962–1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1964–1979); The Mississippi Gambler (1953); The Movie Game (1971); The Name of the Game (1969); The Nebraskan (1953); The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980); The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979); The Pet Set (1971); The Raiders (1952); The Red Rowe Show (1960); The Redhead from Wyoming (1953); The Return of Sam McCloud (1989); The Silent Service (1957); The Simpsons (2002); The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1973); The Toni Tennille Show (1980–1981); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1987); The Twilight Zone (1961); The Val Doonican Music Show (1977); The Virginian (1970 / 2000); The Wildest West Show of the Stars (1986); This Is Your Life (1957); Today (1964); Tom Cottle: Up Close (1982); Touch of Evil (1958); Touched by an Angel (2003); Troy & Priscilla Cory / The Troy Cory Evening Show (1974–1978); TV's Western Heroes (1993); Two-Bits & Pepper (1995); Visions of a New World (1995); Voyeur II (1996); Walking After Midnight (1988); War Arrow (1953); Way... Way Out (1966); Weakest Link (2002); Welcome to the Basement (2012); What About Me? I'm Only 3! (1992); What's My Line? (1962); What's the Matter with Helen? (1971); Where Have All the Children Gone (1980); Wildfire (2005); Wolf Pack (1996); You Don't Say (1964).